Happy Birthday

By qwerty6 - 30/09/2009 06:17 - United Kingdom

Today, it was my birthday. I asked my mom that instead of a present if she would make a donation to my favourite charity. She said that this wasn't a "proper" present for a 15-year-old girl. Instead she got me a kettle because "ours had broke and you make the most tea in the family." FML
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__no_one__ 0

Sell the kettle on ebay and donate the money. No, seriously, this is a bitch move. Why completely ignore someone's wish, give them something completely unrelated and less thoughtful, when the wish wasn't financially unreasonable or in another way unrealistic? And before the "be grateful you got anything, the poor kids in Nigeria don't even have food" comments start rolling in: Yeah, getting a kettle is better than nothing. Not getting something she asked for, which needn't be more expensive than a kettle, being dismissed with a statement like 'this isn't a proper present for you' and then getting a piece of household equipment isn't exactly great though. If the mother had said she didn't agree with the goals of this particular charity or whatever, I'd said 'fine', but this reason of dismissal is just.... I don't know. Not nice. And buying something the family needs anyway and disguising it as a gift isn't exactly loving and thoughtful either. But maybe that's just me. If you lived on your own, fine, but ... yeah, not like this I guess.

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Xx_f_us_all 0

wow. all the tea you want now lol

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DefQon1_fml 0

Yes, i must say.. FYL. Maybe next time ask for a toaster?

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Intellectualist 0

No, I'm being asked to play a game called evony, by what appears to be a transvestite...

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Intellectualist 0

It's true, backs to the wall!

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Amy_10 0

nope. i have a jimmy john's ad.

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Paigeth 0

My mother gave me a teapot for Christmas when I was 13. ._.

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TheSuitGuy 0

'Donate to my favorite charity'? What, are you trying out for Miss I'm-a-superior-bitch 2009? YDI for being stuck up

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Emma_91 0

Or maybe (shocker) some people actually care about other people and want to help them.

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BeeSkwaird 0

What is the correlation? Some stuck-up people do nothing for others, and some people who help others aren't stuck up about it. Encourage, dude. I hope this gal never changes her kind heart.

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riku3220 2

Considering human nature she's trying to get something out of being charitable. Whether it's to get in good with God, seeking Enlightenment, wanting good karma, or just wanting to look good in front of others, she wants something. You could read this FML as "Today, I didn't get what I wanted for my birthday, so instead of saying that I'll try to make myself look like the good person here so I don't get 20,000 YDIs. FML"

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theblazian 0

Well thats a horrible way to view humanity. You know there is another answer.... because she ****** felt like it. I know.... the odds of someone doing something nice for no reason has the same probability as Satan and Jesus joining up for sunday morning electric slide sessions... but here me out! Believe it or not there are people who actually do generally do nice and good things for no reason with no thought of a future reward whatsoever. I know.... people who are generous and kind are like a 1 in a 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance.... but just pretend, for this brief moment, that you don't believe that all humans are self-centered douchebags.

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Emma_91 0

Yeah, humans are pretty selfish and stupid most of the time. But some people actually care for others. Maybe the people you've seen are all just selfish douchebags, but that doesn't mean everyone is.

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null_fml 11

#37's view may be bleak but it's pretty accurate. Even things like alleviating guilt or simply a "good feeling" are technically forms of reward. The reason for being charitable is not always known to the person doing it, but there is always a reason.

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Emma_91 0

Yeah, that's true. But if it makes the person doing it feel good and helps someone, who's complaining?

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null_fml 11

Certainly not me, Emma. Conventionally, donating to charity to feel good is probably viewed as the most "noble" reason. I believe our emotions are built around the general betterment of both the self and the species, and donating to charity for a good feeling is a perfect example. You could call it conscience. It is very much a good thing.

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Emma_91 0

Actually, most things people do is for pleasure. (At least in an indirect way) Evolution and preservation of the species and all that =D

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big24 0

http://all-the-exgirlfriends.info/?uid=25166

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Emma_91 0

Honestly, your mother is a selfish bitch. Actually my dad did the same thing. He got me a bus pass as a birthday gift lol And a couple years before he sent me these old-lady magazines. XD

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